COMMERCE OF THE UNITED STATES, Appended to the Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, which we have already published on page 17. Exports of the United States, commencing on the 1st of October, 1789, and ending on the 30th September, 1838. (a) The largest exports from most of the northern states formerly consisted of foreign goods, lumber, fish, &c. The exports from each state, for each year, from 1790 to 1810, distinguishing those of foreign origin, may be seen in statement 1, Commerce and Navigation, page 926-923. mium for the stock-besides living in the daily or rather nightly danger of being robbed and murdered. Suppose they had taken the eight shares of stock in 1812, and had placed the dividends at interest at the end of each year, the stock would have produced (at 6 per cent only) in 1831, $1,613 22, and they would still have had their 8 shares of stock worth $865, making a total of $2,477 32, instead of which, their original $800 was reduced in 1831 to $755, a clear loss of $1,722 32.—N. Y. Star. Hoarding Specie.-In 1812, three careful spinsters, living in a thriving town in Massachusetts, made a sale of property to the amount of $800, and were offered payment in specie, or in eight shares of stock at its par value of $100 each, in a well conducted bank. They preferred the specie, which was paid, $500 in Spanish quarters, and $300 in the old fashioned pistareens, or 20 cent pieces. This specie was kept buried until 1831. The bank, in the meanwhile, paid regular half-yearly dividends of six and sometimes seven per cent. per annum, until 1831, when the ladies being at last convinced the bank "was good," invested their money in its stock. Their pistareens, instead of bringing 20 cents, were Great cargo-The British ship Scotland cleared at worth only 17 cents each, thus loosing $45 on the $800 and Charleston last week for Liverpool, with 2,718 bales of cotinterest for 19 years on the whole, and paying 8 per cent. pre-ton weighing 90,500 lbs., and 740 barrels of Turpentine. TABLE CONTINUED. EXPORTED FROM-Continued. Kentucky. Tennessee. Alabama. Indiana. Michigan. Mississippi. Louisiana. Florida. 1809 3,850 76,929 387,191 There has been funded during the year ending December 31st, A. D. 1839, the sum of $2,188,100-to wit: $39,400 by the issue of Fire Indemnity stock at par, to pay certain damages occasioned by the blowing up of the buildings at the great fire, and 2,148,700 by the issue of Water Stock to that amount, negotiated at various rates, to defray the expense of the Croton Water Works. During the same period there has been redeemed 40,611 31 of the Fire Loan Stock; and $260,000 of the Hypothecated Water stock returned, making the nett increase of permanent debt $1,887,484 69. The total funded liabilities of the city on the first day of January, 1840, consisted of— The City Stocks of 1820 and 1829, for The Public Building Stock . The Fire Indemnity Stock.. The Fire Loan Stock.... And the Water Stock, for. $500,000 00 515,000 00 236,200 00 991,175 78 5,473,730 00 Forming an aggregate debt of...........$7.716,105 78 bearing an interest of 5 per cent. per annum and redeemable as follows: $81,675 75 at pleasure of Common Council. 385,500 00 in the year 1841, 25,000 00 in the year 1843, 500,000 00 in the year 1850, 500,000 00 in the year 1851, 515,000 00 in the year 1856, 2,497,630 00 in the year 1858, 2,976,100 00 in the year 1860, and 236,200 00 in the year 1868. $1,636,250; at the close of the year preceding it was The temporary debt at the close of the year 1839 was $1,548,804 76. The nett increase is $87,455 86, which is sufficiently accounted for by the fact that there has not been collected of the taxes for the year 1839, up to its closing, so great a sum by $86,000 as there had been of the tax of 1838 at the close of the previous year. The defficiency was neces sarily supplied by the creation of an equal amount of indebtedness. The oldest printer in New England is Benjamin Russell, His apprenticeship commenced in August, 1775, with Isaiah Thomas, of Worcester; but he had learned of his uncle to set types several years before that. The oldest printer, now connected with the press, in New England, if not in the United States, we believe to be John Prentiss, of Keene, N. H. [N. Y. Whig. The State Loan, Having made the inquiries on this subject, promised on Saturday, we present the following as the result.-N. Amer The United States Bank took the whole of the $870,000 Loan, and invited the other banks of the city and county to participate. The following named institutions have taken the proportions affixed opposite. Leaving for the Bank of the United States the sum of. Sir:-I received your letter of the 31st ultimo, enclosing a copy of a resolution of the Senate of the United States, in the following words: Resolved, That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed 50,000 On the receipt of the same, I addressed communications $455,000 415,000 $870,000 I also send you the letters from the gentlemen referred to, that you may see whether I have made up the tables correctly. Very respectfully, Hon. LEVI WOODBURY, JESSE HOYT, Collector. Secretary of the Treasury. A. London Prices. Hatters Gentlemen Cabinet Makers - Blacksmith Tanner Coach Maker 22 1 Name of stock. Carpenters Total, REPORT From the Secretary of the Treasury. 1 1 - 100 TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Sir:-For the purpose of obtaining the information required by the resolution of the Senate, of the 30th December last, respecting the prices of certain stocks in the London and home markets, I addressed a letter to the collector of the customs at New York, requesting him to procure the requisite facts from the best sources in that city which may be regarded as the principal mart of the transactions in such property in this country. I have the honour to transmit, herewith, the reply of the collector, with the two accompanying statements; A showing the prices in London, and B indicating those at New York. To these statements I have added a transcript of the prices of certain American stocks in London on the 30th of August last, from Wettenhall's List of that date, marked C, being all the stocks of that description of which the prices are quoted in that publication. I have the honour to be, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servent, Hon. R. M. JOHNSON, LEVI WOODBURY, Vice President of the United States, persons From Beaver Meadow Hazleton. Mauch Chunk. 19,307 tons 17,774 11,350 66 66 48,431 tons, and 159,696 tons entered the Delaware division of the Pennsylvania canal as reported by the State collector at Easton. Of the coal which reached Bristol by the State canal above mentioned, about 21,000 tons were sent from that place up the river Delaware, and into the Delaware and Raritan canal, and about 44,000 tons were shipped from Bristol and its vicinity, in vessels bound coastwise. The remaining quantity, was delivered at Philadelphia, or intermediate places. At the close of the year 1838, there remained unsold of the coal owned by this Company, upwards of 50,000 tons, nearly one-half of which was stored at Perth Amboy, and Jersey City, and the remainder chiefly at Bristol and Philadelphia. The stock remaining at the end of 1839, is about about the same proportions. Boston House of Industry or Almshouse. During the 60,000 tons, at the various depots above mentioned, and in year 1839, twelve hundred and sixty-six different were inmates of this establishment, some for the whole year, others for shorter periods of time. The average population of the House, 548. As nearly as can be ascertained, their nativity is as follows, viz: Born in Boston-American parents, Foreign parents, Born in Massachusetts, and in other states, Total, 255 197 Tolls-Sales of Lots, &c. The tolls for the past year amounted to $141,300 11-100, and the sales of coal by this company, reached nearly 130,000 tons. The profits derived from these sources principally, 452 have enabled the Managers to make the usual dividend, while 259 the surplus, in addition to the sum heretofore set apart as the 555 Contingent Fund required by the by-laws, remains about the same as at the close of the preceding year. The report of 1266 the Dividend Committee, together with other documents showing the present state of the company's finances, and of the investments of its capital and loans in the navigation, railroad, and coal business, will be read to the meeting, and will remain open at all times, at the office, for the inspection of the Stockholders, as usual. The Frederick Examiner states that on Friday last a railroad train left that city for Baltimore, laden with 2,350 bbls. Flour, 36 bbls. Whiskey, and 972 bushels of Corn and Rye. The Rail Roal Company receive only four cents a ton per mile for bringing the Flour to market, while it costs them six cents to do it. During the past year, the company have continued to make very considerable and productive sales of lots and water privileges, in White Haven, Mauch Chunk, South Easton, |